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Occultation and Other Stories
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. He returns with his second collection, Occultation. Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation's eight tales of terror (two never before published) include the Theodore Sturgeon and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated story "The Forest" and Shirley Jackson Award nominee "The Lagerstatte."
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- Just
- 25-02-23
Cosmic Horror for a New Century
Having done a few of this author's collections already I realised I had not seen this one, and I was not disappointed. Occultation cements Laird Barron as one of the eminent 21st century writers of cosmic horror, and fans of the strange and mysterious will certainly enjoy it. Also, some of the stories in other collections like ‘The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All' now make more sense.
Also the narrator is very good, can't agree with some of the other reviews which say he's awful, but I suppose that is just personal preference.
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- Nigel Quinlan
- 11-06-24
Ock cult
A second collection from Laird Barron, more tales to gouge your world out and then hold the dripping world out on the end of its talons and wave it at the universe and ask if anything wants a snack and a billion disgusting filthy things start shuffling hungrily forward.
More great writing, and a greater variety of protagonists to fall prey to the slow erosion of sanity and reality as Barron mythos grows and infects yet more settings and locales and transforms more doomed and hapless humans into food or feeders. Gay lovers, bereaved mothers, retired surveyors, scientists and married couples, all grist to the horror mill.
The stories themselves are disquieting, disturbing, and disgusting enough to churn the stomach but draws enough veils to churn the mind. Your heart will break and your mind will revolt at the terrible fates of many of these characters, but you'll be glad it isn't you.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-12-21
Who Employs These People?!
A possibly interesting collection rather ruined by the performance of the reader. A weird, overly enunciated style, reminiscent of a continuity announcer on a local TV station. Not for me, but each to their own.
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- LizzyL
- 27-01-23
Rubbish!
Sorry for appearing as a philistine but I didn't get this book at all! I've not read anything like it & I won't again!
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